Laser Focus World articles from July 2008

Laser Focus World archives from July 2008

Opening new frontiers.(editor's desk)
July 1, 2008... Semiconductor and microelectronics processing is big business for capital equipment makers--equipment sales reached $41.7 billion in 2007 according to SEMI, the industry's trade association (www.semi.org). "Microprocessing" is also big business...

Vibration isolation: effective vibration reduction stabilizes laser beams.(More Features, News & Products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The impact of vibration isolation and optical-table damping on laser-beam stabilization cannot be overemphasized. The ST Series SmartTable provides active damping by using vibration sensors and actuators embedded in...

Larry's VC view blog: business plan on a napkin?(More Features, News & Products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Larry Marshall, entrepreneur and budding venture capitalist, shares his thoughts and reflections on the venture-capital scene in his biweekly biog. See why he says entrepreneurs should limit their initial pitch to a...

Lawrence Livermore seeks business plans from grad students.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... The Industrial Partnerships Office at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has found a way to accelerate the development of "disruptive" technologies that benefits both LLNL and entrepreneurs capable of bringing those technologies into...

First optical pacemaker uses femtosecond pulses.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2008... Once the job of electrons, stimulating heart cells is now being done by photons. Researchers at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) have demonstrated the first optical pacemaker, which uses near-infrared pulses from a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser...

Room-temperature continuous-wave quantum-well laser emits single-mode beam at 3019 nm.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2008... A gallium indium arsenide antimonide (GalnAsSb)-based quantum-well laser designed and fabricated by researchers at the Universitat Wurzburg (Wurzburg, Germany) operates at room temperature, emitting a single-mode continuous-wave beam at a...

Light-driven brake stops molecular machines.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2008... Molecular machines (either synthetic or biological) are defined as molecules or groups of molecules that perform mechanical-like movements in response to certain stimuli (light, electricity, or chemical energy). Because a braking system is...

Photonic beetle is nature's answer to optical computers.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2008... The scales of an inch-long beetle from Brazil possess properties that scientists have not been able to fabricate synthetically. Researchers at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT) used a scanning electron microscope to examine the...

OpenFilters optical-filter-design software is released under open-source license.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2008... The boom in popularity of the Linux operating system in the past few years is resulting in, for example, the design of very low-cost laptop computers specifically around Linux. As is well known, the source code for Linux is available to...

Extremely broadband quantum-dot LEDs realized via rapid thermal annealing.(newsbreaks)
July 1, 2008... Researchers at the University of Sheffield (Sheffield, England) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) have reported the first demonstration of ultrabroadband super-luminescent light-emitting diodes (SLEDs) with a multiple quantum-dot...

Lasing spaser creates coherent radiation.(PLASMONICS)
July 1, 2008... A new type of nanoscale optical device called a lasing spaser combines metamaterials and spasers to create a versatile planar source of coherent radiation: The spaser (surface-plasmon laser) is a quantum amplifier of surface-plasmon emission...

Nanolaser becomes a refractive-index sector.(OPTOFLUIDICS)
July 1, 2008... Measuring the change in refractive index of a liquid induced by the entry of a foreign substance is one way to determine whether the liquid has become contaminated. The validity of this technique, however, depends on the accuracy of the...

Near-field polishing yields ultraflat silica surface.(NANOPHOTONICS)
July 1, 2008... Conventional chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) methods are typically used to obtain surfaces figured to sub-100-nm tolerances on optical and semiconductor materials for specialized applications. While CMP methods can yield surface roughnesses...

Ten-year-old embarrassment leads to unified laser theory.(LASER THEORY)
July 1, 2008... Ten years ago, when a team of researchers led by Claire Gmachl and Federico Capasso at Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) grabbed the cover of Science magazine with a paper on "bow-tie" microcavity lasers, they also uncovered what one of their...

Interferometer simplifies FTIR spectrometer.(FOURIER-TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY)
July 1, 2008... If a handheld spectrometer could be created that operated without the need for a spectral-scanning mechanism, its resulting simplicity and low cost would greatly expand its practical usefulness. Researchers from the Office National d'Etudes et...

Single-photon exchange advances Earth-to-space quantum link.(QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS)
July 1, 2008... A quantum communications link in space is one step closer after Italian researchers successfully detected a single photon sent from Earth to a low-Earth-orbit satellite and back. (1) A quantum channel in free space, which works via the exchange...

Fiber is superbroadband source.(FLUORESCENT OPTICAL FIBERS)
July 1, 2008... Optical-fiber-based broadband light sources are desirable for applications such as spectroscopy or optical coherence tomography because, being effectively point sources, they have very high beam quality and spatial coherence. Various types of...

Research reigns supreme at annual conference.(CLEO/QELS & PhAST 2008)
July 1, 2008... Despite mixed reviews from exhibitors on the show floor at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, and the Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies Conference (CLEO/ QELS & PhAST;...

QCLs make a difference in room-temperature terahertz.(TERAHERTZ SOURCES)
July 1, 2008... The terahertz region has long been described as the last frontier in the electromagnetic spectrum, with promises of endless applications in imaging, sensing, and security. In turn, as electrically pumped terahertz sources have been demonstrated...

Polariton LED is electrically pumped.(LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES)
July 1, 2008... Researchers at the University of Crete and the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (both in Heraklion, Crete, Greece) have created an electrically pumped polariton light-emitting diode (LED), a development that helps pave the way...

Collaboration improves P-OLED development.(industry report: laser)
July 1, 2008... Cambridge Display Technology (CDT; Cambridge, England) and Sumitomo Chemicals (Japan), providers of polymer organic-light-emitting-diode (P-OLED) devices, and Novaled (Dresden, Germany), provider of high efficiency p-i-n OLED structures and...

Cascade gets funding, extends BP contract.(industry report: laser)
July 1, 2008... University of Strathclyde spinout and quantum-cascade-laser manufacturer Cascade Technologies (Stirling, Scotland) secured an additional $2 million in funding for expanding its marketing efforts. Cascade Technologies developed and patented the...

Fiber-laser maker IPG enters gas-laser market.(industry report: laser)
July 1, 2008... IPG Photonics (Oxford, MA), a company known for fiber lasers and amplifiers, developed a new family of C[O.sub.2] gas lasers that will allow the company to enter new markets and applications. "Fiber lasers remain the best choice for a large...

ESA selects Modulight for pump-laser contract.(industry report: laser)
July 1, 2008... Modulight (Tampere, Finland and San Jose, CA) continues its close cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) by signing a two-year, $1.1 million contract to develop high-brightness pump-laser technology for Earth observation. The project...

Laser-diode test company ILX Lightware (Bozeman, MT) donated $10,000 worth of laser-diode instrumentation to the University of Texas at Austin.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Laser-diode test company ILX Lightware (Bozeman, MT) donated $10,000 worth of laser-diode instrumentation to the University of Texas at Austin for research on mid-infrared laser diodes for spectroscopy and gas sensing.

Laser Mechanisms.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Laser Mechanisms (Farmington Hills, MI), provider of laser-beam delivery components and articulated-arm systems for industrial lasers, moved its Laser Mech Europe sales offices from Destelbergen, Belgium, to Mariakerke, Belgium, in response to...

Z-Laser Optoelektronik.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Laser manufacturer Z-Laser Optoelektronik (Freiburg, Germany) established a U.K. sales office in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, to enhance and expand its customer base by providing improved service and focus.

Raytheon and Emirates Advanced Investments of the United Arab Emirates signed a cooperative development agreement.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Raytheon and Emirates Advanced Investments of the United Arab Emirates signed a cooperative development agreement for a semi-active laser-guided 70 mm rocket designed to provide increased precision and lethality compared with conventional...

The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL), Northrop Grumman (Los Angeles, CA), Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD), and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency reached a milestone for the Airborne Laser missile-defense program.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL), Northrop Grumman (Los Angeles, CA), Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD), and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency reached a milestone for the Airborne Laser missile-defense program by completing the first...

For his contributions to high-resolution optical-imaging techniques, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie will receive the Berthold Leibinger Sukumftspreis.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... For his contributions to high-resolution optical-imaging techniques, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie will receive the Berthold Leibinger Sukumftspreis for outstanding research in applied laser technology.

Powerlase.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Powerlase (Crawley, England), manufacturer of nanosecond Q-switched, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for significant growth in overseas earnings.

Agreement boosts nanoimprint lithography.(industry report: optics)
July 1, 2008... SUSS MicroTec (Munich, Germany), supplier of solutions for the microelectromechanical systems, advanced packaging, and nanotechnology markets, entered into a license agreement with Philips Research (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), for a new...

Saint-Gobain acquires Lumilog.(industry report: optics)
July 1, 2008... France-based semiconductor-materials maker Saint-Gobain acquired Lumilog (Vallauris, France), which is now operating as a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain. Spun off from the Center of Hetero-Epitaxie Research and Applications (CHREA) of France's...

Caltech semiconductor spinoff acquired.(opticsindustry report: optics)
July 1, 2008... AmberWave Systems (Salem, NH), developer of semiconductor materials technologies, acquired Aonex Technologies (Pasadena, CA) and its suite of materials integration technologies originating from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech;...

Gooch & Housego awarded for NIF crystals.(industry report: optics)
July 1, 2008... For the second time in 2008, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA) honored Gooch & Housego (Ilminster, England) with a Vendor Appreciation award for its performance in the growth and fabrication of crystals for the...

NPL purchases OCT scanner from Michelson.(industry report: optics)
July 1, 2008... The National Physical Laboratory (NPL; Kent, England) purchased an optical-coherence-tomography (OCT) scanner from Kent-based Michelson Diagnostics. "Our research will underpin the application of OCT imaging to a huge range of applications,...

Northrop Grumman is forming a strategic research partnership with the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) and the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) within the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Northrop Grumman is forming a strategic research partnership with the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) and the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) within the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)...

Richard Sandberg of JILA and the University of Colorado at Boulder won the 2008 OSA--New Focus/Bookham Student Award from The Optical Society of America (OSA; Washington, DC) and New Focus (San Jose, CA), a Bookham brand.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Richard Sandberg of JILA and the University of Colorado at Boulder won the 2008 OSA--New Focus/Bookham Student Award from The Optical Society of America (OSA; Washington, DC) and New Focus (San Jose, CA), a Bookham brand, for his work, "70 nm...

University of Delaware.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Sylvain G. Cloutier, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware (Newark, DE), was named the first recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award for his work that...

The National Optics Institute (Quebec City, QC, Canada) signed a three-year cooperation agreement for joint research and innovation activities in photonic micro- and nanotechnology with the Bavarian Laser Centre (Erlangen, Germany).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... The National Optics Institute (Quebec City, QC, Canada) signed a three-year cooperation agreement for joint research and innovation activities in photonic micro- and nanotechnology with the Bavarian Laser Centre (Erlangen, Germany), which...

NASA selects Kopin for solar-cell development.(industry report: imaging & detector)
July 1, 2008... Kopin (Taunton, MA) was selected for a $600,000 solar-cell development contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, DC), the second phase of a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program to develop indium...

Production begins on organic photovoltaics.(industry report: imaging & detector)
July 1, 2008... NexTech Solutions and FAS Holdings Group, doing business as "NexTechFAS" (Houston, TX) announced that a leading organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials and process development company ordered an Advantage Extrusion Coating system for integration...

e2v wins satellite image-sensor contract.(industry report: imaging & detector)
July 1, 2008... Imaging company e2v (Chelmsford, England) won a contract to supply imaging sensors to the Space Application Centre (SAC), part of the Indian Space Research Organisation, for its new satellites. The SAC will develop two satellites using e2v's...

SID announces annual awards.(industry report: imaging & detector)
July 1, 2008... The Society for Information Display (San Jose, CA) announced the winners of its 13th annual Display of the Year Awards: Display Component of the Year Gold Award: Luminus Devices PhlatLight LED backlight unit Silver Award: Fujifilm...

Coop program focuses on flexible displays.(industry report: imaging & detector)
July 1, 2008... The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC; San lose, CA), a public/private partnership to develop the flexible electronics and displays industry supply chain, completed a cooperative R&D program with GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) to accelerate...

Thanks to an international development with Chi Mei Optoelectronics (Taiwan) that enabled a low-cost display (one of the major cost drivers in any notebook personal computer).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Thanks to an international development with Chi Mei Optoelectronics (Taiwan) that enabled a low-cost display (one of the major cost drivers in any notebook personal computer), the One Laptop Per Child (www.laptop.org) project announced that its...

Spectrum Detector (Lake Oswego, OR) president Don Dooley and John Lehman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder, CO) received a 2008 FLC Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Spectrum Detector (Lake Oswego, OR) president Don Dooley and John Lehman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder, CO) received a 2008 FLC Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC;...

LG Electronics, VIZIO, Luminus Devices, and Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) joined the liquid-crystal display LCD TV Association (Beaverton, OR).(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... LG Electronics, VIZIO, Luminus Devices, and Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) joined the liquid-crystal display LCD TV Association (Beaverton, OR), a global, not-for-profit marketing trade association chartered to inform, promote, improve and...

iSuppli.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... iSuppli (El Segundo, CA) forecasts that the global market for large-size liquid-crystal-display panels for monitor, notebook PC, and television panels will increase 17.7% in unit shipments in 2008.

PSI chooses CeramOptec for NASA projects.(industry report: fiber optics)
July 1, 2008... Physical Sciences (PSI; San Ramon, CA) was awarded two $600,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts valued at $600,000 each by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; Washington, DC) for fiber-optic...

Telecom merger creates components giant.(industry report: fiber optics)
July 1, 2008... Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA) and Optium (Horsham, PA) entered into a definitive agreement under which the two companies will be combined through an all-stock merger, creating what they say is the world's largest supplier of optical components,...

Verizon addresses urban FTTP installations.(industry report: fiber optics)
July 1, 2008... Speaking at FiberFest New England 2008 (www.nefc.com), Chris Parker, engineering manager, Greater Boston Outside Plant at Verizon (Boston, MA), explained that Verizon focused its initial fiber-to-the-premises fiber-optic system (FiOS)...

Infinera gets go-ahead for Chinese installations.(industry report: fiber optics)
July 1, 2008... China's Ministry of Industry and Information (MII) issued a Network Access License to Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) for the Infinera DTN optical networking platform. Obtaining this certification is necessary for the future deployment of the Infinera...

Sterlite reports 98% growth in 2008.(industry report: fiber optics)
July 1, 2008... Sterlite Technologies (Pune, India), a manufacturer of optical fiber and telecommunications products, reports full-year FY08 profits reached $25 million (up 98% over FY07 profits) on revenues of $421 million for. Its optical fiber and...

Optical fiber and fiber-based components manufacturer Fiberguide Industries (Stirling, NJ) was formally recognized by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Optical fiber and fiber-based components manufacturer Fiberguide Industries (Stirling, NJ) was formally recognized by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL; Livermore, CA) for its participation in and contributions to the National...

Northrop Grumman was awarded a $46.1 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Optical RF Communications Adjunct project.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Northrop Grumman was awarded a $46.1 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Optical RF Communications Adjunct project, an all-weather, jam-resistant, high-bandwidth that will use both free-space optical and...

Information Gatekeepers.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Information Gatekeepers (Boston, MA) released its third market analysis report on reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) entitled The Edge ROADM Revolution, completing its trilogy on the subject.

Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth solutions, selected Infinera for its regional network in the Northeastern U.S.(Also in the news ...)
July 1, 2008... Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth solutions, selected Infinera for its regional network in the Northeastern U.S. that gives Zayo contiguous service from Chicago to New York and Washington, DC.

How can I grow my engineering services business?(business forum)(Interview)
July 1, 2008... Q: What can I do to grow a product-development engineering services business that serves customers in the Department of Defense and the defense industry? My partner and I enjoy our independence and want to keep it privately owned. A: it is...

MOEMS scanning grating chips reveal spectral images.(SPECTROMETERS)(Cover story)
July 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Hyperspectral imaging is used for a broad variety of applications ranging from the harvesting of agricultural goods to waste selection in recycling processes. In the majority of these applications, objects are...

Ultrafast fiber lasers forge new microprocessing frontiers: although solid-state lasers will continue to play a role in microprocessing, the high repetition rate and high peak power of today's ultrafast fiber lasers are getting noticed in a host of emerging applications.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: MICROPROCESSING)
July 1, 2008... Ultrafast fiber lasers are gradually displacing solid-state lasers for many scribing, marking, and nanopatterning applications in precision microprocessing and in transparent materials for displays, telecommunications, and even for silicon and...

Frequency combs refine Doppler search for distant planets.(ULTRAFAST LASERS)
July 1, 2008... The ability to calibrate spectrographic systems with the latest gigahertz-repetition-rate ultrafast modelocked lasers is expected to improve the wavelength calibration precision of Doppler-velocity measurements by a factor of 60, allowing...

Scientific monolithic CMOS imagers come of age.(CMOS DETECTORS)
July 1, 2008... Imagers based on monolithic complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) were first introduced as a competitor to charge-coupled-device (CCD) detectors more than a dozen years ago. Although CMOS has been commercially successful along the way...

Inspection applications push imaging lenses into the deep.(OPTICAL IMAGING)
July 1, 2008... The need for high resolution is the main driver of an objective design for 45 nm critical-layer mask inspection. The necessary high resolution is achieved by a high-NA optical system and use of a 193 nm wavelength laser source over a small...

Combining beams can boost total power: separate laser beams can be combined to increase power by matching their phases to generate a single coherent beam ... or by merging beams of different wavelengths. But getting it right is tricky.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: BEAM COMBINING)
July 1, 2008... Efforts to scale the output power of a single-output laser inevitably run into limits. As laser size increases, so does the difficulty of removing waste heat, maintaining beam quality, and avoiding optical damage to output optics. Those limits...

Conduction-cooled modules.(new products)
July 1, 2008... Conduction-cooled, fiber-coupled 1550 nm diode-laser modules are based on single- or multibar configurations. Modules include 400 [micro]m, NA 0.22, SMA fibers that deliver 5 to 30 W output power depending on the number of diode bars integrated...

Multichannel TCSPC system.(new products)
July 1, 2008... The HydraHarp 400 is a multichannel pico-second-event timer and time-correlated single-photon-counting system (TCSPC) with a USB interface. It is based on a novel time digitizer with 1 ps resolution and has a processing rate of 12.5 million...

Vibration-isolation workstations.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vibration-isolation tabletops ranging in size from 24 x 24 in. to 60 x 72 in. can be constructed from steel, ferromagnetic stainless steel, composite, or granite. Models include the Standard High-Performance...

Focused beamshaper.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Focal-[pi]Shaper converts, with nearly 100% efficiency, a Gaussian laser beam into a custom-shaped beam, including "flattop," "donut," "inverse Gaussian," "trident," or roof-like intensity profile. The shaper...

Tunable optical filter.(new products)
July 1, 2008... A tunable optical filter allows users to create an arbitrary optical spectrum for use in designing complex optical filters for communications networks. The system provides a sharp filter edge, with a 40 nm wavelength range in the C- or L-band....

IR linear arrays.(new products)
July 1, 2008... The SU256LCS-2.6T2 photodiode detector array is available with 256 elements of extended-response InGaAs material, designed to cover the range from 0.9 to 2.6 [micro]m. It has a large active area with 50 x 250 [micro]m pixels. It includes a...

Compact camera.(new products)
July 1, 2008... The SIM-D ultrafast framing camera is designed for ease of use by even occasional users. An optical periscope allows focus adjustment, while a software package includes full measurement and image enhancement functions. The camera provides...

Sensor measurement.(new products)
July 1, 2008... TCAD Sentaurus device simulation software, along with a ClusterlnABox Quad Q30 workstation from Acceleware, provides electromagnetic stimulation for characterizing optoelectronic devices such as CMOS image sensors. It allows engineers to use...

FTIR microscopy.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Nicolet iN 10 Fourier-transform infrared microscope is powered by OMNIC Picta software. The system is designed to simplify infrared microscopy. The microscope is equipped with a room-temperature detector and has...

HDTV camera system.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The IK-HD1 3CCD HDTV camera has a head measuring only 1.6 in. and weighing 2.3 oz. It has 1920 x 1080 resolution at 30 frames/s, and comes with a C-mount lens flange, RS232C serial interface, and multiple outputs for...

Skew measurement systems.(new products)
July 1, 2008... The 2500 and 2800 optical-fiber analysis systems now offer skew measurement capability for parallel transmission cable assemblies. The 2800 uses the phase-shift measurement technique, while the 2500 obtains skew results based on relative pulse...

Developer's kit.(new products)
July 1, 2008... The RGB Laser Combiner Developer's Kit, created for projection-system designers, is based on complex monolithic optics (CMO) designs. Intended for use with DLP, LCOS, or LCD image panels, the kit measures less than 170 [in..sup.3], has a...

Line-scan cameras.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Runner Gigabit Ethernet line-scan cameras include seven models (six monochrome cameras and one trilinear color camera) with 1 k and 2 k CCD sensors and screwable RJ-45 connectors for tight connections. The Gigabit...

UV laser.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The AVIA 355-23-250 Q-switched UV laser delivers more than 8 W of 355 nm output at repetition rates of 250 kHz and higher, for scribing and dicing applications. With fully automated active optimization functions such...

PM rod-type fiber.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The DC-200-70-PM-Yb-ROD fiber is a polarization-maintaining version of the company's rod-type fiber for high-peak-power amplification. It has a 200 [micro]m pump core diameter for pumping at NA up to 0.6, pumping the...

Blue 488 nm solid-state laser.(new products)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 85-BBB blue solid-state laser provides up to 30 mW of output at 488 nm. Features include a new CLC compact, universal OEM controller, total power consumption of less than 20 W and an RS-232 interface. It is...

Compact spectrometers.(new products)
July 1, 2008... Compact Fourier-transform spectrometers from ARCoptix include the ARC-spectro HT, a static-polarization spectrometer with high sensitivity that needs no focusing optics and works in lowlight-level applications, and the ARC-spectro NIR, a MEMS...

Transparent conductive coatings.(new products)
July 1, 2008... Visible and near-IR transparent conductive coatings utilize a patented Microdyn sputtering process, allowing coated filters to remain stable while withstanding high thermal loads and changes in humidity. The new coatings with indium tin oxide,...

UV fused-silica corner-cube retroreflectors.(new products)
July 1, 2008... A line of UV fused-silica corner-cube retroreflectors provides transmission in the UV, VIS, and near-IR. They have a coefficient of thermal expansion of 0.51 m/[degrees]C and come in four sizes from 7.16 mm to more than 50 mm diameter. Designed...